It might be a bit soft, but the cheap and old Sony SEL55210 is is a tiny 55-210mm telephoto lens for APS-C which makes it quite useful in situations where you need to be mobile and less conspicuous. It's good enough for documentation work.
October 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It might be a bit soft, but the cheap and old Sony SEL55210 is is a tiny 55-210mm telephoto lens for APS-C which makes it quite useful in situations where you need to be mobile and less conspicuous. It's good enough for documentation work.
Global Free Palestine movement exposes that existing systems of democracy is broken worldwide. Massive disconnect between elected representatives and national government policy and positions vs the general populace on black & white issues like starving and killing children, and genocide.
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Global Free Palestine movement exposes that existing systems of democracy is broken worldwide. Massive disconnect between elected representatives and national government policy and positions vs the general populace on black & white issues like starving and killing children, and genocide.
A decade ago, the introduction of the a6000 gave me a small versatile hybrid camera on me at all times for documentation. Working in civil society gives me an insider and behind the scenes view of the work of a lot of amazing and brave people. Will bring more of these online in coming months.
September 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A decade ago, the introduction of the a6000 gave me a small versatile hybrid camera on me at all times for documentation. Working in civil society gives me an insider and behind the scenes view of the work of a lot of amazing and brave people. Will bring more of these online in coming months.
35mm focal length prime lens is my "fun" lens. Using balcony railings to frame landscape photo and remove unwanted foreground elements.
September 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
35mm focal length prime lens is my "fun" lens. Using balcony railings to frame landscape photo and remove unwanted foreground elements.
ROCm 7.0 decouples the AMDGPU drivers from the rocm libraries and runtimes. Works just fine on Ubuntu 25.04 with the distro kernel, everything works as it should HIP, OpenCL and multimedia acceleration. rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.0-...
August 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
ROCm 7.0 decouples the AMDGPU drivers from the rocm libraries and runtimes. Works just fine on Ubuntu 25.04 with the distro kernel, everything works as it should HIP, OpenCL and multimedia acceleration. rocm.docs.amd.com/en/docs-7.0-...
With RAG I can query info, from dull but dense document filings (legal, parliamentary, corporate), in any language. While processing each doc takes hours, once done I can query and verify related and specific info from thousands of pages in minutes, supplemented by own detailed notes and databases.
August 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
With RAG I can query info, from dull but dense document filings (legal, parliamentary, corporate), in any language. While processing each doc takes hours, once done I can query and verify related and specific info from thousands of pages in minutes, supplemented by own detailed notes and databases.
Reason for recent workstation upgrades. Augmenting and building upon investigative journalism methods and tools with AI/ML. In this case testing RAG with a badly scanned but detailed court document. Entity extraction done with LightRAG.
July 20, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reason for recent workstation upgrades. Augmenting and building upon investigative journalism methods and tools with AI/ML. In this case testing RAG with a badly scanned but detailed court document. Entity extraction done with LightRAG.
Questions on whether PEPs public data should have expiry. For grand corruption cases they should never expire. Only 10 years has past, people directly involved in Malaysian 1MDB corruption cases, are still holding positions in policy think tanks. That level of influence and impunity is problematic.
June 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Questions on whether PEPs public data should have expiry. For grand corruption cases they should never expire. Only 10 years has past, people directly involved in Malaysian 1MDB corruption cases, are still holding positions in policy think tanks. That level of influence and impunity is problematic.
When your Garmin fitness age is 40 and you play a pick up 🏀 game with 20 year olds. How does Lebron James do it?
May 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
When your Garmin fitness age is 40 and you play a pick up 🏀 game with 20 year olds. How does Lebron James do it?
Reminded of Robin William's speech on Good Will Hunting, when someone shares AI generated summary or images, or citing a report or video they've watched as input to policy discussions. Have you ever been in a data centre? Or a rural community without clean water? It's important to touch grass.
May 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Reminded of Robin William's speech on Good Will Hunting, when someone shares AI generated summary or images, or citing a report or video they've watched as input to policy discussions. Have you ever been in a data centre? Or a rural community without clean water? It's important to touch grass.
Asunder is a nice little open source app for ripping audio CDs, filling in all the metadata and encoding it as lossless FLAC littlesvr.ca/asunder/
April 18, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Asunder is a nice little open source app for ripping audio CDs, filling in all the metadata and encoding it as lossless FLAC littlesvr.ca/asunder/
Technology now is at a stage where 500GB is affordable and can fit your entire personal music collection on a teeny MicroSD card on your phone. Ripping some missing singles. Never thought that the whirring of spinning optical discs would be nostalgic.
April 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Technology now is at a stage where 500GB is affordable and can fit your entire personal music collection on a teeny MicroSD card on your phone. Ripping some missing singles. Never thought that the whirring of spinning optical discs would be nostalgic.
Curry tree flowers. They end up being berries. The seeds are toxic though. Useful small tree that can be grown in a large pot. You can keep trimming the leaves and branches to always have fresh curry leaves for cooking.
April 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Curry tree flowers. They end up being berries. The seeds are toxic though. Useful small tree that can be grown in a large pot. You can keep trimming the leaves and branches to always have fresh curry leaves for cooking.
Have fun US folks with high tariffs on Malaysia. Pretty much most electronics with semiconductors are made in Malaysia, including packaging for CPU chips like AMD and Intel. Also Shimano bicycle parts.
April 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Have fun US folks with high tariffs on Malaysia. Pretty much most electronics with semiconductors are made in Malaysia, including packaging for CPU chips like AMD and Intel. Also Shimano bicycle parts.
Have been fighting exhaustion for past several weeks. Often just in your head, but once you get out and start walking, the offline world is a beautiful place, filled with amazing people and experiences that has it's own energy to help you recharge. Footballers at the beach, Dili, Timor-Leste.
March 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Have been fighting exhaustion for past several weeks. Often just in your head, but once you get out and start walking, the offline world is a beautiful place, filled with amazing people and experiences that has it's own energy to help you recharge. Footballers at the beach, Dili, Timor-Leste.
64GB. The last upgrades before new parts become scarce for my home work PC. Time flies. 5 years old and already behind two to three generations for CPU and GPU (Zen 3, RDNA1). Hopefully with a new GPU it'll be fine for a few more years.
March 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
64GB. The last upgrades before new parts become scarce for my home work PC. Time flies. 5 years old and already behind two to three generations for CPU and GPU (Zen 3, RDNA1). Hopefully with a new GPU it'll be fine for a few more years.
The level of investigations and fact checking that must be done before, publishing statement or story about modern day slavery in Malaysia. Serious accusations need to be backed by facts. At least in Malaysia, you can still sue for libel and misfeasance in public office.
February 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The level of investigations and fact checking that must be done before, publishing statement or story about modern day slavery in Malaysia. Serious accusations need to be backed by facts. At least in Malaysia, you can still sue for libel and misfeasance in public office.
Payphone. Not something you see often any more. I think they should still be kept as a public utility. If your mobile phone is lost or broken, or cellular network is down, how do you reach out to someone to tell them you're OK?
February 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Payphone. Not something you see often any more. I think they should still be kept as a public utility. If your mobile phone is lost or broken, or cellular network is down, how do you reach out to someone to tell them you're OK?
A reminder that kindness and respecting rights of minorities is what defines you. If you want respect, don't persecute people by yelling might and the majority is right. Flip this the other way around in Malaysia. How many people would get upset at Chinese characters or cross for chapel?
February 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A reminder that kindness and respecting rights of minorities is what defines you. If you want respect, don't persecute people by yelling might and the majority is right. Flip this the other way around in Malaysia. How many people would get upset at Chinese characters or cross for chapel?
Online shopping has really made self maintenance much easier for cyclists in Malaysia. Just need to figure out the right keyword searches to find out which part. Then it's a quick search to buy it and then the videos on how to install it. "Shifter nameplate" was the recent spare part for me.
January 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Online shopping has really made self maintenance much easier for cyclists in Malaysia. Just need to figure out the right keyword searches to find out which part. Then it's a quick search to buy it and then the videos on how to install it. "Shifter nameplate" was the recent spare part for me.
Good experience so far with second generation of these tiny Chinese rechargeable electric bike pumps. Only 180g and digital PSI/Bar setting and USB-C charging. This one is the Cyclami A2S. Can inflate a flat 35mm 700cc tire in about 30s to 40 PSI.
January 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Good experience so far with second generation of these tiny Chinese rechargeable electric bike pumps. Only 180g and digital PSI/Bar setting and USB-C charging. This one is the Cyclami A2S. Can inflate a flat 35mm 700cc tire in about 30s to 40 PSI.
Just came across the term STEAM, STEM but with Arts and love it. Art and creativity is just as important, but even better together.
Self caricature of a much younger me. Pencil and ink.
Self caricature of a much younger me. Pencil and ink.
January 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Just came across the term STEAM, STEM but with Arts and love it. Art and creativity is just as important, but even better together.
Self caricature of a much younger me. Pencil and ink.
Self caricature of a much younger me. Pencil and ink.
Cycling in rain is similar to riding motorbike in Malaysia. Except for heaviest of tropical downpours, you just need a rain poncho. It's actually nice and cool when it rains in morning. You can find cycling specific rain ponchos at nearest Decathalon store.
January 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Cycling in rain is similar to riding motorbike in Malaysia. Except for heaviest of tropical downpours, you just need a rain poncho. It's actually nice and cool when it rains in morning. You can find cycling specific rain ponchos at nearest Decathalon store.
Malaysian policy makers need to understand that parking lots for private vehicles are not last mile infrastructure for public transportation. This parking lot should be replaced by buses, bicycles and pedestrian walkways instead, and the space used for parks or other facilities for human beings.
January 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Malaysian policy makers need to understand that parking lots for private vehicles are not last mile infrastructure for public transportation. This parking lot should be replaced by buses, bicycles and pedestrian walkways instead, and the space used for parks or other facilities for human beings.
The Kampung Baru cycleway from Jalan Raja Bot to SMK Puteri Wilayah on OSM
www.openstreetmap.org#map=19/3.164...
www.openstreetmap.org#map=19/3.164...
January 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The Kampung Baru cycleway from Jalan Raja Bot to SMK Puteri Wilayah on OSM
www.openstreetmap.org#map=19/3.164...
www.openstreetmap.org#map=19/3.164...